A couple of examples they give are augmenting your candy bowl with pennies in able to hand out less candy.Don’t buy new costumes. Rather, make costumes out of existing clothing items. Skip haunted houses and instead stay home and have a scary movie night.

Those are great suggestions, but there are limitless possibilities. For instance, paint all your Christmas decorations black and cut the heads off the reindeer and decorate away!

Search your neighborhood for a really nice tricked out house. Then on Halloween, kidnap their pet. Call them just before everyone goes out to trick or treat and tell them you’ve hidden their pet downtown. When they’ve rushed off to find their pet, sit on their porch with a bucket of candy and pennies.